Urban peregrines! Right at the foot of my road – didn’t even know there was an eyrie there. My neighbour heard them and pointed them out to me. Couldn’t get very close, so had to compromise with a crop sensor and x2 extender on my 100-400 mm lens. Rather higher ISO than ideal at a forced f11 wide open. Adult male on a high perch. One young still in the eyrie, and the other out on some superstructure. Pigeons all around them – don’t seem to recognise what they are… until they take to the air… then they react!
Additional peregrine shots…
Just going out for a day sea trout fishing on Loch Lomond. I was facing the engine, when Colin M pointed at something goin on behind me. I missed the first part, which Colin saw – a small bird dropped out the sky and landed in the water. As I turned, I saw a peregrine banking round. I had the camera with the wrong lens for the job, and all the wrong settings dialled in for a bird in air shot. With no time to make any changes, I just had to go with what I had. I got one out of focus shot as the peregrine banked, and then a blurry shot (shutter speed at 1/160 sec) as it swooped down to pick up its prey (which it had obviously struck in the air – hence the bird falling in the water).